Silicon Verification - CPU Team applicants have rated the interview process at NVIDIA with 4 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 100% positive. To compare, the company-average is 58.3% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Common stages of the interview process at NVIDIA as a Silicon Verification - CPU Team according to 1 Glassdoor interviews include:
Presentation: 50%
Phone interview: 50%
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Interviews consist of 3 rounds. First two are very technical with a focus on computer architecture (instruction lifetime, virtual addresses, endianness). Last round is longer i.e. 4-6 hours. Had not done the 4-6 one when I wrote this.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Describe how an instruction flows in the datapath? (they were looking for the pipeline stages ie fetch, decode, execute, memory, write back);
Data hazard question(Specifically RAW);
One question about endianness;
Another one about virtual addresses, page walks and instruction translation ie how the TLB works;